Portion Quotes
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Portion Quotes & Sayings
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You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.
— Mohsin Hamid
A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.
— Daniel Kahneman
When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.
— Alexander The Great
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy
— Charles Spurgeon
Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel
Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.
— Joel Fuhrman
The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.
— Benjamin Franklin
She has been the keeper of home for me, and I have been the keeper of journey for her. And now we look for the lost portion in each other.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.
— Elizabeth Banks
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
— Thomas More
A rose covered the top portion of the gravestone and underneath it read: Once your eyes have been opened, you can't un-know or un-see.
— Rose Pressey
Each day was called a generation, because that in it God generated, or produced, some new portion of his work.
— Ellen G. White
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
— Russell Smith
Even Jesus, the Savior of the world, had to take time each day to ask for his portion.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life.
— Curtis Jackson
It was one thing to have a demon for a parent. It was another thing when your father owned a significant portion of Hell's real estate.
— Cassandra Clare
Tuppy wiped a fair portion of Hampshire out of his eye, and peered round him in a dazed kind of way ...
— P.G. Wodehouse
Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.
— P.N. Elrod
Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.
— Berkeley Breathed
Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
— Samuel Rutherford
All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies
— Josephus
Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
— Sitting Bull
It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.
— Charles Henry Mackintosh
In a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.
— Frances Moore Lappe
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
— Horace
The Vietnam war was fought over portion size.
— Jon Stewart
Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time.
— Rolf Potts
China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries.
— Evan Osnos
Taxes are not trivial - they're a huge portion of this overall economy. And that's why I focused on them.
— Arthur Laffer
Finding true love may be a beautiful portion of your story, but it was never intended to be the grand finale.
— Debra Fileta
A French portion is half of an American portion, and a French meal takes twice as long to eat. You do the math.
— Elizabeth Bard
Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.
— Reinaldo Ramos Suassuna
This room is not well adapted as a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a portion of our carpet.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A hearty meal is easier to digest than one that is too small.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.
— James Anthony Froude
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.
— Jamais Cascio
My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.
— Gayle Forman
Wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality emanates from its class interests and its class feelings of superiority.
— Jack London
An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.
— Scott Stossel
For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be a corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind.
— Plato
God is unwilling to do everything Himself, lest He deprive us of our free will and of that portion of glory that belongs to us.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The only true gift is a portion of thyself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A portion of the electorate will always levitate toward the scratch and sniff candidate, granting them superficial appeasement without any substance.
— T. Rafael Cimino
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.
— John Ramsay McCulloch
Brief life is here our portion.
— John Mason Neale
Jess again. Mark had called her Jessica. As if she were a full person, not a truncated portion of one.
— Courtney Milan
The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.
— Henry David Thoreau
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
— Will Durant
But if the star should set, even while I am penning these lines, be it so; still I can say it has shone, and I have received a rich portion.
— Hans Christian Andersen
To be honest with you, I still eat whatever I want. It's all about portion control. I still love pizza, but instead of eating half, I eat a slice.
— Bill Engvall
We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure.
— Robert Teeter
Giving works best when the Lord's portion is removed first and believers learn to live within the remainder.
— Max Anders
Our posture NOW defines our portion later!
— Bradley Cooper
Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.
— Thiruman Archunan
There must not be any single person in the world whom you should allow to rent a portion of your heart. Don't hold grudge. Forgive and move on...
— Assegid Habtewold
The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you most.
— Auliq Ice
After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland.
— Menachem Begin
We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
35. God is entitled to a portion of our income - not because He needs it but because we need to give it.
— James C. Dobson
In other words, a considerable portion of your extraordinary gift comes from the simple fact that you very much want to do good. -Master George
— James Dashner
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
— James Boswell
Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.
— Frederick Lenz
And for what portion of human history had people even had desk jobs?
— Rebecca Makkai
To have a blog is to have some portion of your brain assigned to monitoring your audience.
— Jake Lodwick
A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.
— Charles Spurgeon
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Man is allotted his portion in the womb. The first thing you are assigned before you come into this world is your destiny.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
— Benjamin Franklin
Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
— James Anthony Froude
Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.
— Thomas Ligotti
In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
— Herman Melville
God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.
— Charles Spurgeon